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• What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.
  The philosopher, the saint, the hero, the wise, and the good, or the great, very often lie hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred and brought to light....
• A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble
  hen you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant....
• Art lies in concealing art.
• Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. -- Twyla Tharp
• The real Universe arched sickeningly away beneath them.
  Various pretend ones flitted silently by like mountain goats....